Alternatives to Excel - (Aug/04/2006 )

Microsoft Excel is nice but it can take only 65,000 rows and you can not draw a graph with more than 32,000 data points.
Can anybody suggest an alternative software that can handle larger data sets?
It has to be able to do basic calculations and draw graphs like Excel does. Mac format and freeware preferable.

What about OpenOffice, its for free and worth testing. But I don't know if it fulfils you rrequests.

Octave ... like matlab but FREE as in beer.
R - a statistics package for large datasets.
GNUPLOT - install using fink for the mac - this plots only but plots from plain text files ... all values in columns no seperator like ,.

Will post back if I think of more .... I suggest R as it makes some great looking graphs .

I am currently teaching myself MINITAB.

It's more statistical-oriented than Excel (which is more DB oriented).